Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 3

1957 · 39 episodes · ★ 9.1

What Season 3 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Season 3 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents It has 39 episodes and aired October 6, 1957. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

39episodes

Oct 6, 1957aired

Jun 29, 1958latest episode

17.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The Glass Eye
Oct 6, 1957 · 26 min
Captivated by his physical beauty, an aging spinster develops an obsession for a ventriloquist, travelling all over the country to watch his act with his child-sized dummy.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Tom Conway, William Shatner, Billy Barty, Jessica Tandy
3x02 Mail Order Prophet
Oct 13, 1957 · 26 min
When an ordinary clerk starts receiving letters which accurately predict the outcome of future events, he takes a dangerous gamble with his life.
Directed by James Neilson · Written by Robert C. Dennis · Starring Judson Pratt, Linda Watkins, Jack Klugman, Ken Christy
3x03 The Perfect Crime
Oct 20, 1957 · 25 min
A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famous detective who prides himself on never having committed a single mistake in his long and distinguished career, to prove that he convicted an innocent man.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Written by Stirling Silliphant · Starring John Zaremba, Vincent Price, Mark Dana, James Gregory
3x04 Heart of Gold
Oct 27, 1957 · 27 min
A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer.
Directed by Robert Stevens · Written by James P. Cavanagh · Starring Darryl Hickman, Len Lesser, Nehemiah Persoff, Edward Binns
3x05 Silent Witness
Nov 3, 1957 · 26 min
Intending to break up with an infatuated student, professor Donald Mason tracks her down at a babysitting job, where the conversation ends in murder.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Dolores Hart, Harry Bellaver, Don Taylor, William Boyett
3x06 Reward to Finder
Nov 10, 1957 · 26 min
After finding a cash-laden wallet John Gaminski promises his wife that he'll return it. But when he reneges, she demands that he share the money.
Directed by James Neilson · Written by Frank Gabrielson · Starring Oskar Homolka, Claude Akins, Jo Van Fleet
3x07 Enough Rope for Two
Nov 17, 1957 · 26 min
An ex-con heads to a mine to retrieve a cache of stolen loot. When his two former partners show up, three's a crowd with $100,000 at stake.
Directed by Paul Henreid · Written by Joel Murcott · Starring Steven Hill, Jean Hagen, Steve Brodie
3x08 Last Request
Nov 24, 1957 · 26 min
A death-row inmate awaiting the electric chair uses his final hours to prove his innocence in a killing.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Joel Murcott · Starring: Cara Williams, Hugh Marlowe, Harry Guardino
3x09 The Young One
Dec 1, 1957 · 27 min
A pretty underage girl, bored with adolescence and eager to experience all that adulthood allows, acts out in ways that could ultimately prove deadly.
Directing: Robert Altman · Writing: Sarett Tobias · Starring: Vince Edwards, Jeanette Nolan, Carol Lynley, Rusty Lane
3x10 The Diplomatic Corpse
Dec 8, 1957 · 27 min
Touring Mexico, Janet's rich aunt dies, and the car holding her corpse is stolen. Without a body, Janet can't claim the inheritance.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Peter Lorre, Isobel Elsom, George Peppard
3x11 The Deadly
Dec 15, 1957 · 26 min · ★ 6.6
A conniving handyman tries to blackmail an innocent housewife for a fabricated dalliance.
Directing: Don Taylor · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Peggy McCay, Anabel Shaw, Lee Philips, Phyllis Thaxter
3x12 Miss Paisley's Cat
Dec 22, 1957 · 26 min
An elderly woman is terrified that her disagreeable male neighbor will kill her beloved—but habitually roving—tabby cat.
Directing: Jus Addiss · Writing: Marian B. Cockrell · Starring: Fred Graham, Dorothy Stickney, Raymond Bailey, Harry Tyler
3x13 Night of the Execution
Dec 29, 1957 · 26 min
Warren, a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, must deliver a guilty verdict in a murder case to ensure his political future.
Directing: Jus Addiss · Writing: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Pat Hingle, Vinton Hayworth, Russell Collins
3x14 The Percentage
Jan 5, 1958 · 26 min
A successful businessman who once acted cowardly in the war—but got undeserved credit for heroism—attempts to buy off an old Army buddy who knows the truth.
Directed by James Neilson · Written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring Alex Nicol, Don Keefer, Nita Talbot, Walter Woolf King
3x15 Together
Jan 12, 1958 · 26 min
When a businessman's mistress threatens to expose their secret relationship to his wife, he realizes he must do anything to stop her.
Directed by Robert Altman · Written by Robert C. Dennis · Starring Joseph Cotten
3x16 Sylvia
Jan 19, 1958 · 26 min
Her elderly father becomes alarmed when a jilted woman purchases a handgun.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: Ann Todd, John McIntire, Raymond Bailey
3x17 The Motive
Jan 26, 1958 · 26 min
Two crime-obsessed buddies plot the perfect murder—one with absolutely no motive.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Rose Simon Kohn · Starring: Carl Betz, Ken Clark, Gary Clarke, Skip Homeier
3x18 Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
Feb 2, 1958 · 26 min
Traveling in Paris, an Englishwoman finds herself accidentally locked in a hotel room with a corpse.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Marian B. Cockrell · Starring: Albert Carrier, Mildred Natwick
3x19 The Equalizer
Feb 9, 1958 · 27 min
Filled with jealous rage, a man plots revenge on a coworker he is convinced has had an affair with his wife.
Directing: James Neilson · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Leif Erickson, Martin Balsam, Robert Riordan, Norma Crane
3x20 On the Nose
Feb 16, 1958 · 27 min
A gambling-addicted housewife owes money to a bookie, and resorts to desperate measures in order to raise the money.
Directed by James Neilson · Written by Irving Elman · Starring Karl Swenson, Jan Sterling, David Opatoshu, Carl Betz
3x21 Guest for Breakfast
Feb 23, 1958 · 26 min
In this violent home-invasion tale, a gun-wielding convict terrorizes a married couple whose relationship is already on the ropes.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Scott McKay
3x22 The Return of the Hero
Mar 2, 1958 · 26 min
Things are not what they seem when two soldiers discharged from the Algerian war spend some time together in Marseilles.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Stirling Silliphant, Andrew Solt · Starring: Jacques Bergerac, Lilyan Chauvin, Victor Varconi, Susan Kohner
3x23 The Right Kind of House
Mar 9, 1958 · 27 min
After the death of her troubled son, a mother decides to sell her house, but a potential buyer discovers she may be hiding something.
Directing: Don Taylor · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: James Drury, Paul Maxwell, Jeanette Nolan, Harry Tyler
3x24 The Foghorn
Mar 16, 1958 · 26 min
A woman alone in a quiet house finds herself haunted by the noise of a foghorn. As the story progresses, she tries to recall how the sound became so horrifying to her, but the answer may be deeper than she thinks.
Directed by Robert Stevens · Written by Frank Gabrielson · Starring Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Rennie, Jennifer Howard, Selmer Jackson
3x25 Flight to the East
Mar 23, 1958 · 25 min
The plight of an American war correspondent suddenly becomes front-page news when a former British Army nurse recalls a strange incident from the past.
Directing: Arthur Hiller · Writing: Joel Murcott · Starring: Mel Welles, Patricia Cutts, Anthony George, Gary Merrill
3x26 Bull in a China Shop
Mar 30, 1958 · 27 min
A handsome homicide detective is befriended by four old ladies who invite him for tea and proceed to play out a variation of Arsenic and Old Lace for his benefit.
Directing: James Neilson · Writing: Sarett Tobias · Starring: Dennis Morgan, Elizabeth Patterson, Estelle Winwood, Paul Maxwell
3x27 Disappearing Trick
Apr 6, 1958 · 27 min
A debonair tennis player looks into his attractive partner's past and her presumed dead husband.
Directed by Arthur Hiller · Written by Kathleen Hite · Starring Perry Lopez, Frank Albertson, Percy Helton, Raymond Bailey
3x28 Lamb to the Slaughter
Apr 13, 1958 · 27 min
Domestic bliss comes to a rapid halt when a housewife discovers that her police chief husband has been having an affair while she's been pregnant.
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock · Writing: Roald Dahl · Starring: Allan Lane, Barbara Bel Geddes, Harold J. Stone, Ken Clark
3x29 Fatal Figures
Apr 20, 1958 · 27 min
It's all in the numbers when a bookkeeper becomes obsessed with his mundane life and crime statistics.
Directing: Don Taylor · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: John McGiver
3x30 Death Sentence
Apr 27, 1958 · 27 min
Love is in the eye of the beholder when a happily married woman sees a bomb attached to the family car as a sign of her husband's affection.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Joel Murcott · Starring: James Best, Steve Brodie
3x31 The Festive Season
May 4, 1958 · 27 min
'Tis the season to resurrect old family grudges when a brother accuses his sister of murdering his wife on a less than jolly Christmas Eve.
Directed by Arthur Hiller · Written by James P. Cavanagh · Starring Richard Waring, Edmon Ryan, Carmen Mathews, Benny Baker
3x32 Listen, Listen. . . !
May 11, 1958 · 27 min
When three beautiful blonde women are strangled with a silk stocking, Mr. Morgan becomes convinced he knows how it happened, even though no one will hear him out.
Directing: Don Taylor · Writing: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Adam Williams, Kitty Kelly, Elsie Baker, Dayton Lummis
3x33 Post Mortem
May 18, 1958 · 27 min
When a newly married couple realizes that a lottery ticket is in her recently deceased ex-husband's burial suit, they put their love on the line to exhume the winnings.
Directing: Arthur Hiller · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Steve Forrest, Joanna Moore, James Gregory
3x34 The Crocodile Case
May 25, 1958 · 27 min
A man learns never to separate a woman from her accessories when his "perfect" murder plot is spoiled by a missing piece of luggage.
Directing: Don Taylor · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Hazel Court, Denholm Elliott, Patricia Hitchcock, Frederick Worlock
3x35 Dip in the Pool
Jun 1, 1958 · 27 min
A desperate man takes the ultimate plunge when he gambles a fortune without his wife's knowledge.
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock · Writing: Francis M. Cockrell, Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Fay Wray, Keenan Wynn, Philip Bourneuf, Doreen Lang
3x36 The Safe Place
Jun 8, 1958 · 26 min
A senior bank teller is tempted by the prospect of sudden wealth when a known gangster makes a large withdrawal from his account.
Directed by James Neilson · Written by Michael Hogan · Starring Phillip Pine, Joanne Linville, Wendell Holmes, Robert H. Harris
3x37 The Canary Sedan
Jun 15, 1958 · 27 min
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing when a woman discovers she has extraordinary powers to see the past of objects.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Tetsu Komai, Patrick Westwood, Jessica Tandy
3x38 The Impromptu Murder
Jun 22, 1958 · 26 min
Still waters run deep when a lawyer with mayoral ambitions murders a woman who claimed he tried to embezzle money from her in the past.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Robert Douglas, Gwendolyn Watts, Hume Cronyn, Doris Lloyd
3x39 Little White Frock Season Finale
Jun 29, 1958 · 26 min
An elderly actor invites a playwright and his wife to dinner to tell a touching story of a long-lost love.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Julie Adams, Herbert Marshall, Bartlett Robinson